Edith Cavell
Americannoun
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Edith Cavell a nurse who was shot by the Germans in World War I for saving British soldiers.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2013
Life-size models of Edith Cavell, Stephen Fry and Horatio Nelson have been placed around a new "portrait" bench near Norwich train station.
From BBC • May 23, 2013
In the weeks before British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad in World War I, she pored over her copy of Thomas à Kempis’s 15th-century devotional book, “The Imitation of Christ.”
From Washington Post
Nurses who served with "Martyr" Edith Cavell show no sympathy for her admirers.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day in August it was learned at the Legation that an English nurse, named Edith Cavell, had been arrested by the Germans.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
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